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ApsaraMQ for Kafka:CU Postpaid

Last Updated:Jul 01, 2026

ApsaraMQ for Kafka provides value-added capabilities that consume compute resources to meet your business needs. This topic describes the billing items and billing rules of CU postpaid.

Billing items

Billing item

Description

Billing cycle

CU quantity

The actual quantity of compute resources consumed by capabilities during the billing cycle.

Pay-as-you-go by hour

Capability scope

Capability

Description

Capability description

Migration to cloud

The CU quantity consumed by migration to cloud tasks.

1 CU provides 10 MB/s data transfer capability.

Data synchronization

The CU quantity consumed by data synchronization tasks.

Settlement

Important

If the region and pricing information differ from those on the purchase page, the information on the purchase page prevails.

Billing starts after a task is created.

  • Billing is based on hourly units. The peak traffic within a one-hour window is used as the actual usage. Usage of less than one hour is calculated as one hour.

  • Settlement is performed once per hour, and a bill is generated once every 24 hours. Fees are automatically deducted from your account balance. Alibaba Cloud measures your service usage for the previous calendar day, generates a bill, and deducts the service fees from your Alibaba Cloud account on the next calendar day.

Pricing

International site

Region

Unit price (USD/CU/hour)

China East 1 (Hangzhou)

0.049

China East 2 (Shanghai)

0.049

China North 1 (Qingdao)

0.049

China North 2 (Beijing)

0.049

China North 6 (Ulanqab)

0.044

China North 6 (Ulanqab) Local Zone

0.063

China South 1 (Shenzhen)

0.049

China South 3 (Guangzhou)

0.049

China Southwest 1 (Chengdu)

0.049

China (Hong Kong)

0.075

Japan (Tokyo)

0.07

Singapore

0.068

Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)

0.053

Indonesia (Jakarta)

0.068

Philippines (Manila)

0.062

Thailand (Bangkok)

0.065

Germany (Frankfurt)

0.066

UK (London)

0.063

UAE (Dubai)

0.068

US (Virginia)

0.063

US (Silicon Valley)

0.063

US (Atlanta)

0.063